coldfish wrote:
People forget that the real reasons for the platform failing wasn't just C=, but weakening consumer demand and greater competition from other platforms.
After the multi-platform confusion of the 80s many consumers and businesses wanted a platform they could be relatively confident would be a "safe-bet" for future upgrades and software.
The Amiga's complex closed architecture prevented it from being this product.
I doubt the Amiga platform would exist even if C= was still around. I suspect C= would be a PC brand like Dell or HP and the Amiga platform would be much the same as it is a present, minus the A1 and Amiga Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hombre_chipsetPA-RISC 7150(includes SIMD multimedia instructions)+Hombre 3D chipset+Windows NT on a game console? CBM's XBOX 1994/1995... @PA-71x0 can decode and play MPEG video at a rate of ~30 frames/second without the need for a special DSP.
PA-RISC's successor is Intel Itanium...
Imagines CBM’s "XBOX" vs Sony’s PS1...
PA-RISC 7100 includes instruction fusion i.e. bundle related instruction together, thus increasing the number of instruction issue per cycle.
Later, AMD K7/K8 Athlon, AMD K10 Phenom, Intel Core 2, IBM PowerPC 970 includes instruction fusion/bundling..
